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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Godot Engine Official</title><link href="https://godotengine.org/atom.xml" rel="self"/><link href="https://godotengine.org/"/><updated>2025-03-03T16:45:48+00:00</updated><id>https://godotengine.org/</id><entry><title>Godot 4.4, a unified experience</title><link href="https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-4-a-unified-experience/"/><updated>2025-03-03T15:45:00+00:00</updated><id>https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-4-a-unified-experience/</id><summary>Look forward to plenty of quality of life improvements hidden within this release. Faster load speeds, reduced stutter, streamlined processes — spotting all the optimizations that have been applied in the background will take some time.</summary><content type="html"/><author><name>Godot contributors</name></author><category term="Release"/></entry><entry><title>Release candidate: Godot 4.4 RC 3</title><link href="https://godotengine.org/article/release-candidate-godot-4-4-rc-3/"/><updated>2025-02-28T17:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://godotengine.org/article/release-candidate-godot-4-4-rc-3/</id><summary>We said "final" for the previous release candidate, but good things come in threes, don't they?</summary><content type="html">&lt;p>We are almost ready to release Godot 4.4 officially! As we are in the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Release_candidate">Release Candidate&lt;/a> stage and focus only on critical regression fixes, the pace of merging pull requests has nearly stopped… but a lot of good stuff is already being queued for the next release cycle. In the meantime, the communication team is doing an amazing work to finalize the contents of the release page, so that you can all (re)discover the highlights of Godot 4.4 with an exciting format!&lt;/p>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Godot Engine Official</title><link href="https://godotengine.org/atom.xml" rel="self"/><link href="https://godotengine.org/"/><updated>2025-03-03T16:55:29+00:00</updated><id>https://godotengine.org/</id><entry><title>Godot 4.4, a unified experience</title><link href="https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-4-a-unified-experience/"/><updated>2025-03-03T15:45:00+00:00</updated><id>https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-4-a-unified-experience/</id><summary>Look forward to plenty of quality of life improvements hidden within this release. Faster load speeds, reduced stutter, streamlined processes — spotting all the optimizations that have been applied in the background will take some time.</summary><content type="html"/><author><name>Godot contributors</name></author><category term="Release"/></entry><entry><title>Release candidate: Godot 4.4 RC 3</title><link href="https://godotengine.org/article/release-candidate-godot-4-4-rc-3/"/><updated>2025-02-28T17:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://godotengine.org/article/release-candidate-godot-4-4-rc-3/</id><summary>We said "final" for the previous release candidate, but good things come in threes, don't they?</summary><content type="html">&lt;p>We are almost ready to release Godot 4.4 officially! As we are in the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Release_candidate">Release Candidate&lt;/a> stage and focus only on critical regression fixes, the pace of merging pull requests has nearly stopped… but a lot of good stuff is already being queued for the next release cycle. In the meantime, the communication team is doing an amazing work to finalize the contents of the release page, so that you can all (re)discover the highlights of Godot 4.4 with an exciting format!&lt;/p>
 &lt;p>We managed to get a few more regressions identified and fixed since our RC2 snapshot 2 days ago, so we’re making a &lt;em>final&lt;/em> final release candidate to round this all up and ensure Godot 4.4 is ready for prime time!&lt;/p>
 &lt;p>Please, consider &lt;a href="#support">supporting the project financially&lt;/a>, if you are able. Godot is maintained by the efforts of volunteers and a small team of paid contributors. Your donations go towards sponsoring their work and ensuring they can dedicate their undivided attention to the needs of the project.&lt;/p>
 &lt;p>&lt;a href="#downloads">Jump to the &lt;strong>Downloads&lt;/strong> section&lt;/a>, and give it a spin right now, or continue reading to learn more about improvements in this release. You can also &lt;a href="https://editor.godotengine.org/releases/4.4.rc2/">try the &lt;strong>Web editor&lt;/strong>&lt;/a> or the &lt;strong>Android editor&lt;/strong> for this release. If you are interested in the latter, please request to join &lt;a href="https://groups.google.com/g/godot-testers">our testing group&lt;/a> to get access to pre-release builds.&lt;/p>

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-Godot Engine - .NET</div><div class=download-hint>4.4</div></a><p class=main-download-details><strong>x86_64 · C# support · </strong>3 March 2025</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id=foundation class="section section-foundation"><div class=container><div class=release-cards><div id=foundation-donate class="release-card media-right span-3"><div class=release-card-container><div class=release-card-content><div class=release-card-content-container><div class=c-blockquote>Made possible by <span class=highlight>your donations</span></div></div></div><div class=release-card-media><a class="release-card-button release-card-button-fund" href=https://fund.godotengine.org/><span class=release-card-button-text>Join the Development Fund ➔</span></a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id=links class="section section-links"><div class=container><div class=release-cards><div id=links-links class="release-card transparent-card span-3"><div class=release-card-container><div class=release-card-content><div class=release-card-content-container><div class=c-content><ul class="links-container main-list"><li><a class="link link-highlights" href=#highlights><span>Highlights</span></a><li><a class="link link-general" href=#general><span>General</span></a><li><a class="link link-platforms" href=#platforms><span>Platforms</span></a><li><a class="link link-scripting" href=#scripting><span>Scripting</span></a><li><a class="link link-systems" href=#Systems><span>Systems</span></a></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id=highlights class="section section-highlights"><div class=section-title><div class=container><h3><a href=#highlights>Highlights</a><div class="section-robot godot-icon-godot" aria-disabled=true></div></h3></div><div class="container section-highlights"></div></div></div><div class="container section-highlights"><div class="release-cards two-columns"><div id=jolt-physics-module class="release-card media-right span-2"><div class=release-card-container><div class=release-card-content><div class=release-card-content-container><h4 class=c-title><a href=#jolt-physics-module><p>Jolt Physics</p></a></h4><div class=c-blockquote><p><span class=highlight>Jolt</span> into action</div><div class=c-content><p>The Jolt extension has been used as the <em>de facto</em> physics engine by many Godot developers since its inception in late 2022, so it only made sense to integrate it into the engine directly. <a href=https://github.com/jrouwe/JoltPhysics>Jolt Physics</a> itself is actually a standalone open source physics engine and its creator helped immensely with the Godot bindings.<p>While this PR might be one of the most rigorously tested ones, we are eagerly awaiting your feedback (and <a href=https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues>GitHub issues</a>) to eventually be able to drop the “experimental” label on this addition. Until then, you have to enable this alternative to Godot Physics in the project settings. Before you do, make sure to check if your interests/use-cases are properly supported <a href=https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.4/tutorials/physics/using_jolt_physics.html>in the documentation</a>.</div><div class=c-link data-contributors='[{"name": "Mikael Hermansson", "github": "mihe" },{"name": "Jorrit Rouwe", "github": "jrouwe" }]' data-read-more=https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/99895><a class=c-link-a href=https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/99895 target=_blank>Read more</a><div class=contributor-area><div class=contributor-icon><span class=material-symbols-outlined>group</span></div><div class=contributor-list><span>Contributed by <a href=https://github.com/mihe title="@mihe on GitHub" target=_blank>Mikael Hermansson</a> and <a href=https://github.com/jrouwe title="@jrouwe on GitHub" target=_blank>Jorrit Rouwe</a></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class=release-card-media><div class=release-card-video-container><noscript><video class=release-card-video playsinline disablepictureinpicture=disablepictureinpicture autoplay loop muted poster=/storage/releases/4.4/video/godot_jolt.webp>
+Godot Engine - .NET</div><div class=download-hint>4.4</div></a><p class=main-download-details><strong>x86_64 · C# support · </strong>3 March 2025</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id=foundation class="section section-foundation"><div class=container><div class=release-cards><div id=foundation-donate class="release-card media-right span-3"><div class=release-card-container><div class=release-card-content><div class=release-card-content-container><div class=c-blockquote>Made possible by <span class=highlight>your donations</span></div></div></div><div class=release-card-media><a class="release-card-button release-card-button-fund" href=https://fund.godotengine.org/><span class=release-card-button-text>Join the Development Fund ➔</span></a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id=links class="section section-links"><div class=container><div class=release-cards><div id=links-links class="release-card transparent-card span-3"><div class=release-card-container><div class=release-card-content><div class=release-card-content-container><div class=c-content><ul class="links-container main-list"><li><a class="link link-highlights" href=#highlights><span>Highlights</span></a><li><a class="link link-general" href=#general><span>General</span></a><li><a class="link link-platforms" href=#platforms><span>Platforms</span></a><li><a class="link link-scripting" href=#scripting><span>Scripting</span></a><li><a class="link link-systems" href=#systems><span>Systems</span></a></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id=highlights class="section section-highlights"><div class=section-title><div class=container><h3><a href=#highlights>Highlights</a><div class="section-robot godot-icon-godot" aria-disabled=true></div></h3></div><div class="container section-highlights"></div></div></div><div class="container section-highlights"><div class="release-cards two-columns"><div id=jolt-physics-module class="release-card media-right span-2"><div class=release-card-container><div class=release-card-content><div class=release-card-content-container><h4 class=c-title><a href=#jolt-physics-module><p>Jolt Physics</p></a></h4><div class=c-blockquote><p><span class=highlight>Jolt</span> into action</div><div class=c-content><p>The Jolt extension has been used as the <em>de facto</em> physics engine by many Godot developers since its inception in late 2022, so it only made sense to integrate it into the engine directly. <a href=https://github.com/jrouwe/JoltPhysics>Jolt Physics</a> itself is actually a standalone open source physics engine and its creator helped immensely with the Godot bindings.<p>While this PR might be one of the most rigorously tested ones, we are eagerly awaiting your feedback (and <a href=https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues>GitHub issues</a>) to eventually be able to drop the “experimental” label on this addition. Until then, you have to enable this alternative to Godot Physics in the project settings. Before you do, make sure to check if your interests/use-cases are properly supported <a href=https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.4/tutorials/physics/using_jolt_physics.html>in the documentation</a>.</div><div class=c-link data-contributors='[{"name": "Mikael Hermansson", "github": "mihe" },{"name": "Jorrit Rouwe", "github": "jrouwe" }]' data-read-more=https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/99895><a class=c-link-a href=https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/99895 target=_blank>Read more</a><div class=contributor-area><div class=contributor-icon><span class=material-symbols-outlined>group</span></div><div class=contributor-list><span>Contributed by <a href=https://github.com/mihe title="@mihe on GitHub" target=_blank>Mikael Hermansson</a> and <a href=https://github.com/jrouwe title="@jrouwe on GitHub" target=_blank>Jorrit Rouwe</a></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class=release-card-media><div class=release-card-video-container><noscript><video class=release-card-video playsinline disablepictureinpicture=disablepictureinpicture autoplay loop muted poster=/storage/releases/4.4/video/godot_jolt.webp>
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